What am I looking at here? FAKE Golden Nugget chip? (1 Viewer)

[TheBigTater]

ICON chips are pretty much garbage. Love that finely detailed printing....

 

[Poker Zombie]

ICON chips are pretty much garbage. Love that finely detailed printing....

All the players at Golden Nugget are 75 years old or older, so they can't see the detail anyway.

 

[LeGold]

But what about security? To me it seems these can be faked much more easily...

 

[Poker Zombie]

But what about security? To me it seems these can be faked much more easily...

ICON produces RFID chips. Most likely, only the higher denoms are ordered with RFID though.

 

[Schmendr1ck]

When you buy garbage chips, they often deteriorate faster, and you end up replacing them more often. Or, you just keep the trash in play.

When my local room opened in 2017, apparently they got their chips for about 40¢ each from pokerchips.com. This is what they look like today:

Also, they're slippery and there are tons of spinners. Keeping stacks of 20 is a real challenge.

 

[BGinGA]

When you buy garbage chips, they often deteriorate faster, and you end up replacing them more often. Or, you just keep the trash in play.

When my local room opened in 2017, apparently they got their chips for about 40¢ each from pokerchips.com. This is what they look like today:

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Also, they're slippery and there are tons of spinners. Keeping stacks of 20 is a real challenge.

Would have been better -- and cheaper -- to start out with plain metal slugs, and just skip the plastic covering.

 

[Schmendr1ck]

But what about security? To me it seems these can be faked much more easily...

I'd bet it would take minimal effort for me to order counterfeit chips for my local room (see previous post).

The main giveaway would be that my fake chips would look brand new. I'd need to put them in a rock tumbler for a bit before trying to use them.

 

[Schmendr1ck]

Would have been better -- and cheaper -- to start out with plain metal slugs, and just skip the plastic covering.

 

[DeeVee8]

We’ve seen electronic tables fail. Has there ever been electronic currency on a live table?

It’s an AARP forum

I thought that’s what the Golden Nugget was?

 

[allforcharity]

ICON as in the product line from TCS Huxley? I wonder who their NA subcontractor is?

 

[Poker Zombie]

TCS Huxley supplies tables and games, but subcontracts for chips from both ICON and Matsui.

 

[HaRDHouSeiNC]

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Is that a Home Depot washer with a sticker on it ???

 

[Schmendr1ck]

Is that a Home Depot washer with a sticker on it ???

Yes, but I did it in GIMP.

I wouldn't waste a real washer like that. At least those things are useful.

 

[puglia82]

I saw same thing in 2017 at Hooters (since rebranded as OYO): they had in play two different 1$, one house-mold Paulson (older) plus one ceramic

 

[Quicksilver-75]

I wonder if the switch to plastic / ceramic chips is going to be the norm. In the new world of viral awareness having chips that are easily washed and offer a longer life might be slightly more desirable. I think they might be slightly cheaper, too?

 

[Poker Zombie]

I wonder if the switch to plastic / ceramic chips is going to be the norm. In the new world of viral awareness having chips that are easily washed and offer a longer life might be slightly more desirable. I think they might be slightly cheaper, too?

Bud Jones are more expensive than Paulsons up front, but they have a longer lifespan from being more durable, and less prone to chippers walking out of the casino with them by the rack.

 

[davislane]

Error chip. Photo courtesy of Jay on FB.

Any ideas how this would came into existence?

 

[HaRDHouSeiNC]

Error chip. Photo courtesy of Jay on FB.

Any ideas how this would came into existence?

Is it all printed on??
Looks like a wrap and got put on kadywhampus. Curious the other side

 

[davislane]

Is it all printed on??
Looks like a wrap and got put on kadywhampus. Curious the other side

We need a chipper to get their hands on one and deconstruct it for science. Could be a blank blue chip with something added over the top. The yellow spots appear raised.

 

[HaRDHouSeiNC]

We need a chipper to get their hands on one and deconstruct it for science. Could be a blank blue chip with something added over the top. The yellow spots appear raised.

Extra points if you can snap it in half with your bare hands

 

[philhut]

My guess on the change is that "public health" had something to do with it.

In healthcare public health has come out with some "fair" and other "wild" suggestions in my workplace......I would guess that the impressions on the molds of the chips were assessed as a vector for disease spread since "gunk" sits in there" The flush face mold chips would therefore be easier to clean fully with no depressions to worry about. Also the cheaper price will help compensate for a possible shorter lifespan of the chip in circulation given current health orders.....

 

[HaRDHouSeiNC]

My guess on the change is that "public health" had something to do with it.

In healthcare public health has come out with some "fair" and other "wild" suggestions in my workplace......I would guess that the impressions on the molds of the chips were assessed as a vector for disease spread since "gunk" sits in there" The flush face mold chips would therefore be easier to clean fully with no depressions to worry about. Also the cheaper price will help compensate for a possible shorter lifespan of the chip in circulation given current health orders.....

Yah they would probably clean off much easier whatever they use to do that.
Curious how they look after 6 months of Rock tumbler Covid cleanings

 

[BGinGA]

Error chip. Photo courtesy of Jay on FB.

Any ideas how this would came into existence?

Ceramic blank was off-center when placed on the dye-sub transfer paper.

 

[CrazyEddie]

Ceramic blank was off-center when placed on the dye-sub transfer paper.

I'm surprised they have that much bleed around the chip.

On the other hand, a) they needed it here, and b) if they have that much bleed they must be expecting to have that much skew when placing the chips. In other words, they know they're going to be doing a shitty job so they compensate for it and call it close enough.

Still a little surprised. If you can use a tighter bleed then you can get more chips per sheet of transfer paper and more chips per pressing. I guess the labor cost to do a good job is more expensive than the reduced yield from doing a shitty one.

 

[BGinGA]

It's an error chip, not a chip at the fringe of acceptability. My biggest surprise is that it managed to escape from the factory and into the wild -- if in fact it even did. The chip may have been pulled by QC.

Does anybody recognize that mfg mark?

 

[Saoliver]

It's an error chip, not a chip at the fringe of acceptability. My biggest surprise is that it managed to escape from the factory and into the wild -- if in fact it even did. The chip may have been pulled by QC.

Does anybody recognize that mfg mark?

Icon?

 

[Schmendr1ck]

Error chip. Photo courtesy of Jay on FB.

Any ideas how this would came into existence?

At least my chips are like that on purpose.

 

[BGinGA]

Icon?

I thought ICON used a capital I. Maybe IC for ICON Chips. Dunno about just an O or 0.

 

[Poker Zombie]

I thought ICON used a capital I. Maybe IC for ICON Chips. Dunno about just an O or 0.

I think that is a capital I. It's just blurred in the way that ceramic black inks bleed.

 

[HaRDHouSeiNC]

It's an error chip, not a chip at the fringe of acceptability. My biggest surprise is that it managed to escape from the factory and into the wild -- if in fact it even did. The chip may have been pulled by QC.

Does anybody recognize that mfg mark?

Someone had that in the casino on the tables and kept it I believe as a card capper.